The next 12 hours are critical and this is like watching paint dry.

Ok, I have a question... WHO are those that have voted for Lauda? WHY? Do YOU not believe in FREE SPEECH?

I have nothing against Lauda, and his proposal for moderation is perfectly legit but... he/she/it/them has already stated that WO was full of garbage (and idiots) and considers borderline offtopic OPINIONS (such as of r0ach's) as "spam". I won't even mention his * opinion about casual altcoins talk or how * literally said that the best way to help would be entirely deleting the thread.

Is this really what YOU want?

Is it really what you want for your SONS?

THINK OF THE CHILDREN FOR GODS SAKE!!!







P.S.: Image of happy children of all continents and races inserted for full effect.

WTF? That's some twisted bullshit. Very disgusting you think like that. Cats are *perfect genetic machines* that don't need anyone else to take care of them. They can tolerate it and even enjoy human interaction up to some degree though.

I was closely following the Litecoin segwit signaling and activation process. Yes, there is a moment in which it will be clear that even if all of them stop signaling there are already enough signaled blocks to lock it at the end of the period. Of course, you can assume way sooner that locking won't be stopped with a 95-95% chance of being right.

I do expect that miners play a little with their hashrate/signaling as they did with Litecoin though. And as they are actually doing right now with Bitcoin (see coindance).

It will be a very fun and interesting process to watch (and trade) in real time.... and talk about it in our reopened WO

P.S.: Hopefully with an owner/moderator that allows references to altcoins for comparison (such as Litecoin in this specific case).

Yep... and UASF, and... years waiting for a single moment like that. (I hope everything will go smooth though).

Seriously? The HAPPENING!!!

I have to say that even if you have been slightly offensive to Meuh, any time I read those words "kingdom of terror" and come to my mind all those excessive rules about quotes, offtopic, pics size, and basically everything I ROFL! It's one of the most funny arguments I have seen in ages

I haven't seen the code, but most probably a single field change directly in the database could enable the "reset vote" button without losing current votes. Anyway, even if it is something Theymos could easily do, if he has chosen to structure the poll like this, then that's how it is.

You do now enjoy tormenting poor shitcoin developers? I always though your hate was mainly against Bitcoin (and maybe jews too).

Yep, it matters. We all have some preferred candidates, that's ok. The best owner of WO would be someone that most of the time we wouldn't even notice he is doing his "job" while he is doing it perfectly.

Anyway,  I have finallly voted for: lightfoot (my initial choice), arklan, Erkalis, infofront (he is doing a great job on his forked WO) and empowering (this guy sounds like a great Adam's sucessor)... So I have some serious chances that my "preferred" candidate wins

Can we post train pictures and stuff when our candidates go in the lead?

In a few days we will have WO again, maybe it is good to start recovering old habits in the meantime (or to do it for the last time in case Lauda wins the poll)

Oh, it looks like the the electoral campaign has already started. This is gonna be fun.

Lauda is in the lead atm? Who would have thought....  

No, it is not correct. You are talking about a SURE x3 in 2-3 years, while it is much more probable a POSSIBLE-BUT-NOT-SURE-AT-ALL x10 in that same period (or for next halving) with a certain risk (I hope minimal) that it just go down from current price or even crashes to almost zero.

It looks, similar, but it is way different. Main difference? If it was a SURE thing I would invest ALL I have into it. Everyone would do. Which btw, would make it much more than x3. But it isn't, it's far from a sure thing.

Also you are referring to past historic prices.... If you do so we would be talking of orders of magnitude higher increase in price.

Bitcoin -cryptocurrencies in general- is a VERY HIGH RISK investment. As such, the ROI can also be astronomical as it has happened until now.

Maybe I was wrong in my feeling.

No, you didn't vote, but its your right not to do it, that's irrelevant.

The "issue" is that you expressed a lot of concerns that have already been addressed in this same thread. Some of them by theymos himself. Others are not that clear but there's no need to create a controversy over them unless there's some real justification.

An "election committee" does not vote/elect the winner but just supervise the process of the election, we would probably don't need that if we just hand the list of candidates to theymos and he runs the poll (making theymos some sort of election comitte himself). That's the better way to legitimize the process without unnecesary delays.

Unless Theymos states otherwise all users except newbies will vote, same as they did for current poll about the future of the thread. He has already stated that any restriction over who could post on the thread is not technically possible at the moment without creating a new section for it. So that's not on the table.

Also there's absolutely no problem in any candidate voting for himself (in fact it would be somewhat logical and advisable) or for anyone else for the lulz. Or not voting altogether.

He has also stated that we will have to chose ONE owner and that it is not technically possible to have additional moderators for the thread.

With all due respect, Lauda, are you trying to boycott the reopening of WO or are you really like that?

Noon then. There's plenty of time for whomever cares about WO and wants to also step up.

I am not sure if it should be a one or a multiple-choice poll, nor if the results should be public during (current results) / after (who voted which choice) the election or not.

Unless someone has some strong opinion about this that he want to express, I guess we could leave that details up to Theymos.

We have now a pretty nice set of candidates for new owner of WO. And theymos has already said that as soon as one is elected/designed he will unlock the thread.

I don't see any reason to extend the resolution farther than this week. We could give until wednesday to see if there are any more candidates or withdrawals (though it would be better there isn't more of the latter or we risk drying out of candidates and having to start from scratch) then ask Theymos to run the poll from wednesday to sunday... and we will all be happy hodlers of classic WO again before next week

TL;DR: Let's get back WO asap.

I know where you are going. I remember those attacks, in fact I wasn't participating in WO at that time because it was a mess with all those "flooding posts" and the like. I don't care scrolling down a posts that I am uninterested in, but it was a pain having to scroll FULL PAGES full of ascii spam or whatever.

If that's what you want to prevent it would probably be enough with restricting *newbie* (the rank) accounts from posting. Creating new accounts from different IP's is cheap as fuck (more so when this board accepts TOR so you don't even need your own proxies)... farming their activity to even become Jr Member is expensive.

Also, I don't remember seeing that sort of attack (on a considerable scale) for.. maybe since a year ago?

I don't think you stop much more of that attack by also restricting Jr Member, Members, or Full members. And for the few ones that could happen, banning would do wonders (and it's more costly for the attacker).

Any restriction over "newbie" account seems overkill and unjustified to me. Maybe I am wrong.

I was being ironic (see the "Now seriously..." part) because I find this discussion completely absurd. I have already stated I am against that sort of restriction. The only one that I would think reasonable is restricting *newbie* accounts from posting... and even that is not something I really like.

Have anyone realised that Hero's and Legendary's have achieved that rank for being "prolific" posters?

Wouldn't it be better to do it based on account creation? Something like you can't post to WO if you haven't been registered in the forum for at least 3 or 4 years.

Now seriously... Theymos has already stated that signatures won't show up on WO and that, just maybe, the post count won't increase. Isn't that enough to stop most of the nonsense posts? No signature campaign earning nor activity farming should do wonders.

I would understand newbie accounts not being able to post as they would only need a couple of weeks to achieve the rank and it avoids someone just creating new accounts on the go to keep spamming the thread. Other than that seems too much a restriction to me... but if that's what most people want, why not?

I am not gonna cry for that

I am not quite sure where your angriness come from, but let's just clarify that I haven't appointed anything myself.

I have just tried the get the ball rolling on the list compilation and nothing else. Anyone can (and should) update the list themselves. You have a strange sense of what is decision power or elitist bullshit.

It's just a list of people that have expressed their willingness to help with the moderation of the thread. That's all about it. Geez.